Nancy Pelosi Elected House Speaker for the Second Time

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was elected speaker of the House on Thursday for a second time, as Democrats took control of the lower chamber.

Pelosi — who retook the speaker’s gavel after a formal floor vote that lasted about an hour — reclaimed the House’s top leadership post amid a congressional face-off with President Donald Trump over border wall funding that has left parts of the federal government shuttered for the third time in a year.